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Every once in a while is a slang phrase.

If a person says I will read a book every once in a while the person means that they will occaisonally read a book but not often.



If you were to create a time scale it would look like this:

1.Never

2.Rarely

3.Occaisonally- Every once in a while

4. Often

5.Frequently

6. On a regular schedule

"every once in a while" is when you do something about once a month.



example: i wash my car every once in a while.



here are some other words you can use:

- once a month: i was my car once a month

- rarely: i rarely wash my car

- barely: i barely wash my car

- from time to time: i was my car from time to time

not very often, sometimes, every now & then, occasionally

occasionally. sometimes.

it means like you just do it once in a month



you can say rarely; sometimes

yeah you could say sometimes its perfect

every now and then



once or twice a year



rarely



once in a blue moon

No more than 3 times a year